Re: [SLUG] SSH attack

2007-08-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/08/07, Morgan Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer to use something like denyhosts to simply block the offending ip's as moving the port seems somewhat to be security through obscurity. Yes it is. But it keeps your logs much cleaner (so any attempt to hack is noticed much more

[SLUG] Which which?

2007-08-03 Thread Craig Dibble
Hi all, Just an idle curiosity for a Friday afternoon, but does anyone know which verison of which is included in the debianutils package (in Ubuntu Feisty), and why it is so woefully out of date? For instance, on one of the FC4 boxes I have to look after, which is the standalone package:

Re: [SLUG] Squid and File Serving

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Deigan
On 7/30/07, Stephen Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been hitting the Linux documentation hard and after much learning I think I have decided on a course of action. I would like to get another computer and set up a Proxy Server for my network security and peace of mind. I have no idea

Re: [SLUG] Home Linux Server

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Deigan
On 8/3/07, Stephen Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a home Linux server to act as a I've done all of this and more with a 200mhz machine with 96mb of memory :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Your Platform for Innovation - spigit.com

2007-08-03 Thread Blake
Hey, what are brilliant ideas talents worth without the right platform to show them? Your ideas, talents get to see the light of the day in spigit.com. Your handicap of not knowing the right people is cured in spigit's socianomic community. Be assured, spigit was the magic you were looking for to

Re: [SLUG] Home Linux Server

2007-08-03 Thread Barrie Hall
I use Compaq G1 DL380's off ebay ($80), add SATA controller + disk + DDS4 tape and off you go. $80 will probably get you 2 way 1Ghz + 1G mem + 2 x 18G SCSI disk (just for OS). The G1's have lots of space for extra SATA disks, etc. get something as cheap as possible if you can grab

Re: [SLUG] SSH attack

2007-08-03 Thread Scott Ragen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/08/2007 02:04:42 PM: I prefer to use something like denyhosts to simply block the offending ip's as moving the port seems somewhat to be security through obscurity. I agree that moving the port is security through obscurity, but obscurity can compliment good

Re:[SLUG] Home Linux Server

2007-08-03 Thread jam
On Friday 03 August 2007 14:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a home Linux server to act as a 1. Proxy Server 2. Web Server (For Web development only) 3. Proxy Mail Server 5. Print Server (Needing a USB 2.0 ports) 6. File Server 7. IP Tables firewall Does anybody have any ideas as what

[SLUG] Evolve New Ideas in an Exciting Interactive Community - spigit.com

2007-08-03 Thread Eden
Innovative ideas are dime a dozen and spigit.com gives you the platform to launch these otherwise unused ideas to bloom see the light of the day. Spigit's simulation tracks hundreds of market-driven factors through crowd participation decision analysis. During which you can refine ideas, find

Re: [SLUG] DVD drive not working with ubuntu

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Wilson
On feisty or dapper you will still need to install required codecs to be able to watch dvds, same work finding and installing the packages for ?libdvdcss and friends. Google and ubuntu forums can guide you. libdvdcss2 and w32codecs for Ubuntu December 4, 2005 Posted by carthik in ubuntu.

[SLUG] Refine your Ideas in spigit.com

2007-08-03 Thread lobos
Do you really care about putting into action, all those wonderful ideas that ran into your stream of consciousness, at some point of time. Let me introduce spigit.com, the venue you must be in to see your otherwise unused ideas bloom and see the light of the day. Spigit.com just launched on the

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 19, Issue 6

2007-08-03 Thread Nicholas Tomlin
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 16:42 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer to use something like denyhosts to simply block the offending ip's as moving the port seems somewhat to be security through obscurity. But this kind of activity isn't new, by any

[SLUG] ubuntu fiesty printing

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Wilson
Printing works fine on boxes upgraded to feisty but machine reinstalled with fiesty from alternate cd after a change of motherboard and processor wont install printer. Display issues stopped use of graphical installer as the windows were larger than the screen, so some buttons could not be

[SLUG] disk full

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Wilson
Ubuntu fiesty get error message that disk is full, /. but I can't find the files where the content is in /. Home and tmp are separate partitions, as is everything mounted on /media. Computer still working reasonably. Below are output of df and du. cheers Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ df -h

[SLUG] Your Platform for Innovation - spigit.com

2007-08-03 Thread lenin
Hey, what are brilliant ideas talents worth without the right platform to show them? Your ideas, talents get to see the light of the day in spigit.com. Your handicap of not knowing the right people is cured in spigit's socianomic community. Be assured, spigit was the magic you were looking for to

[SLUG] DVD drive not working with ubuntu

2007-08-03 Thread Rufi_Dukes
i got a new machine a few days ago with ubuntu feisty pre-installed and i can't watch a video; I'm not ready for the all the hard work just yet, I want a bit of straightforward pleasure first... so... I was thinking of installing dapper (a copy of which i have); but would this mean that, after an

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] DVD drive not working with ubuntu]

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Wilson
vlc and oggle worked where others didn't for me Ken michael fitzgerald wrote: Ken, i've got these packets correctly installed and still when i try to run a player like totem or mplayer i get: messages to the effect that i need a plugin to play a video, without it stipulating, in either case,

Re: [SLUG] disk full

2007-08-03 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Ken Wilson wrote: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 25G 24G 0 100% / Err, 24 out of 25 gig in / Since you have everything in different partitions you are only interested in what happens on /dev/sdc1, you might try: sudo find / -xdev -type

Re: [SLUG] Re: Video Audio in HTML5 - W3C Editor's Draft 28 June 2007

2007-08-03 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
Hi Marghanita, first of all: WhatWG is a collection of Web developers and Browser developers (mostly Firefox, Opera and some guys from Apple), who are developing not only the specs of HTML5, but also software to demonstrate the ideas. It is very much a technical effort, so if we have any input

[SLUG] epson 1670 as a network scanner on Fedora 7

2007-08-03 Thread Craig Warner
I'm trying to setup an epson 1670 as a network scanner on a fedora 7 server (please note I'm agnostic when it comes to Linux distributions). So far I can scan locally on the server ie use scanimage -L. The services has sane-port 6566 added xinetd has been modified But when I try to telnet to